It would challenge credulity to claim that, contrary to appearances, Voegelin's relationship with G.W.F. Hegel is positive. The tone Voegelin adopts toward modern thinkers in general, and Hegel in particular, is so consistently vituperative that it does seem partially to justify the characterization of Voegelin as a "demonologist.”1 In addition, while Voegelin's critique of Hegel is both episodic and unsystematic,…